WHENEVER
REPORTERS asked about civilian deaths in the invasion of Iraq, US military
officials reflexively plunged into a numbing prattle about the precision
of our weaponry, precaution to avoid needless carnage, and promises to
investigate possible mistakes.

In late March,
after an American missile hit a marketplace in Baghdad and killed plenty
of people - Iraqi officials said 58 - Major General Victor Renuart of
Central Command said: ''With every one of those circumstances, we ask
the component ... who may have had forces involved, whether it's land,
sea, or air, to do an investigation, and that takes a number of days to
do that. The air component in this case is completing his review. We think
that will be complete within the next day or so. And as soon as ... the
review is completed, we'll make that available.

''As to what
do we determine to be the cause, I think certainly there are a number
of possibilities. We want to make sure that if in fact there was an error
on our part, that we found that out and made that available.''

A couple
of days later, Brigadier General Vincent Brooks, the deputy director of
operations for Central Command, said: ''There is an ongoing investigation;
still I think we are starting to come to a high degree of closure on it.
We are still accounting for every weapon system that we released into
the Baghdad area. And once we've gotten to closure on that, I think we
will be able to say one way or another what role we may have played, or
not.''

On April
1, Brooks was asked by a reporter if he could give a date to give the
results of the investigation. Brooks responded by saying: ''Well, I can't
give you a date. I mean, it takes as long as it takes. And it ought to
be thorough. We're not going to waste time with them, but we are going
to be thorough about the work that's being done.... Our designs are to
minimize the casualties to civilians as much as we can. We'd like to see
that be zero. That is not something that's ever been achieved in warfare.
We believe our efforts have driven it as low as it has ever been driven
in warfare.''

Two and a
half months after the prattle, we now have the terrible truth. There never
was an investigation. That fact was embedded (pun intended) in an Associated
Press report this week that it has so far counted 3,240 Iraqi civilians
killed in the invasion, including nearly 1,900 in Baghdad. The AP quoted
Central Command spokesman John Morgan confirming the nonexistence of an
investigation.

Americans
should be shocked that journalists are piecing together a history of the
war that our military is trying to bury with the bodies.

The AP report
said it took pains to exclude from its count all records of hospital deaths
that did not distinguish between civilians and soldiers. It also noted
that many other victims didn't die in hospitals but were lost in the rubble
or buried immediately, according to Islamic custom. As a result, it said,
''hundreds, possibly thousands of victims in the largest cities and most
intense battles aren't reflected in the total.''

The numbers
are ominous, since in the 1991 Gulf War, 3,500 civilians died in the fighting,
and in the months after, 111,000 Iraqis died from the destruction of the
nation's health care and transportation infrastructure, according to Beth
Osborne Daponte, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University.

On Monday,
White House spokesman Ari Fleischer was asked whether he personally felt
any remorse over the mounting number of civilian deaths given that no
weapons of mass destruction have yet been found. Fleischer did not speak
about the people killed by American missiles. All he said was: ''I think
when you take a look at all the mass graves that have been discovered
all around Iraq, I think the world breathes a sigh of relief that a brutal
dictator like Saddam Hussein, who had no regard for human rights, has
been removed from power so that the Iraqi people can at long last have
a life and build a future that's based on freedom and opportunity, not
on tyranny.''

Fleischer
said that even before the AP figures were widely known. This is a White
House in clear denial. The world and even many Iraqis may breathe sighs
of relief right now, but things will change dramatically if the White
House and the Pentagon keep choking on lies and deceptions.

Americans
were outraged when 3,000 people were killed in the terrorist attacks of
Sept. 11, 2001. Now, between Afghanistan and Iraq, our vengeance has killed
way more than that. We rightly demanded that the world care about our
innocent dead. Now we wrongly ignore the people we killed. We not only
bombed innocent people, we bombed our own innocence.

You can listen
to Alex Jones live weekdays from 11:00AM-2:00PM
and 9:00PM-12:00Am Central Standard Time. The show is broadcast over Shortwave
from 11AM-2PM on 12.172 and 9320 and from 9:00 PM to Midnight on 5.085
and 6890.

You can also listen
over the Internet by clicking on the flashing tower (and "listen
now" button on Alex Jones' website -- www.infowars.com).
Click through to live streaming audio of the show.